The Dickinson press., 1887-06-11
HISTORY OF ThE WEEK.
DAKOTA NEWS.

Steele county bonds to the amount
Of S2o,ooU We're sold in Grand Forks
ut IL premium.
Lizzie. the . year old daughter of
Daniel Crcary, seven miles west of
Lalimorc. was drowned in IL we'll,
Aberdeen 5 new directory contains
l,62O namcs. showing IL population of
$500. Two years ago the population
was 1000.
The assessment of the city of .Aber-
ton of city property is O 10000, against
S4O7 900 last year.
Four hundred graders began work
ON the extension of the +. L. 4 NJ. ".
railway from Rapid to Whitcwuod.
The road will he completed 10y oct. l..
The trustees of the Yalkton insane
asylum assert their innocence of amy
corrupt practices in its management;
and profess IL Willingness to meet I'LL
charges.
Dcadwood board of trade offers the
Fremont, Elkliorn 4 Missouri Valley
iSiiI VI Way anu dilllhc ttlllllllul lU-
4 ~cilitics or S5O.U0O in cash to come to
Dcadwuud.
| Two hundred teams and 400 men
are ut work on the Northern Pacific
extension to the boundary. The con-
tractors agree to have the road ready
for travel by November |.
The board of regents has let the
contract for the erection of the new
college building at Brookinys. to FISH
er Il CO.. Minneapolis: also purchased
Il quarter section of lamd for the col
lcgr farm.
Miss Elsie Brown and Joe Glosner.
attendants ut the jamestown ASYLUM.
were struck by lightning Monday
while driving. The mml can hardly
recover.
Surveyors of the Burlington 4
Northern railroad, under the dirrc-
tl"n and cooperation of Canton bust
ness men. have commenced running Il
line from Canton to Lcmars, Ia., to
connect with the Illinois Central.
The programme for the Mitchell
fireman S tournament is out. 1t lasts
four days and there are prizes i'm the
following: Hose coupling, single man;
free for all hose race: novelty hose
race; championship laldellnam'S con-
test; novelty hook and ladder race for
Dakota and Iowa: championship coup
ing contest: chemical engine contest:
juvenile laddcrmen's contest; cham
%plonSllip hook and ladder race.
GENERAL NEWS.
Browns Valley, Mimi, voted $35,O 900
worth of bonds in litl of the canal
connecting Traverse and Big Stone
lakes.
The redemption of trade dollars to
date amounts to about 5000. OGU and
the treasury officials think that very
few more are outstanding.
The announcement made IL few days
ago that !; ncw union depot will be
built OF the lIaymarkct property,
Minneapolis, is admitted by railroad
officials to be true.
Mr.. Bricn WAS rendered an infor-
NAL reception by the New York
Press club. Remarks were made by
Mr.. OBrien, Joe Howard, Jr., Bill
.Nye and several others.
The Braincrd Daily News issued
Il handsome siX-column folio Monday
morning, with associated press tele.
graphic news, the first daily of any
Importance the city has eve had.
Assistant Secretary Maynerd
~telegraphed the collector of customs
at san Francisco to prevent the land
ing of French .convicts from New
Caledonia should iany such arrive ut
that port.
At Pembroke. Ont, David Gogolin.
the German who, i'll October last,
killed Mrs. Wllerentllal, his tenant,
because she refused to vacate his house
or pay rent, was hanged Monday.
The New York emigration commits.
sloner decided to send back
seventy of II consignment of ninety
emigrants whose passage was paid by
the British government on the ground
that they were pallpers and liable to
become public charges.
The furnaces of the South Chicago
Roller mills closed down on account
of the exhaustion of the supply of
coke, and l,2o0 out of 2,l00 men en-
ployed were thrown out of employ.
ment. The exhaustion of the icoke
supply is caused by the strike now
pending in the coke regions.
At Minneapolis j. NJ. Mayford shot
q. Z. Winslow. Il sewing machine
agent and Mayford's former employer.
with Il probable fatal result. The
men quarrelcd over the question of an
unsettled salary hetweenlthem. Wins
low is u man about so years old. May
ford was arrested.
At the crossing of the Baltimore Il